A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
HERODOTUSMy men have become women, but the women men.
More Herodotus Quotes
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The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
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All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
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These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It’s impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.
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The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
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If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
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It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
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It is better to be envied than pitied.
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He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
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